Queer - Guadagnino's new transgression (spoiler alert)

Hello gorgeous, new day, new article.

For those who don't know me, I'll disclose one random fact: I can't remember the end of films or books. Half of the films I watched have an open ending as far as I am concerned. And this loss of memory can happen from the day after. All this premise to say that for me to write about a film I watched at the movies a whole week ago, is totally unwise. But I'll try, because interpretations were prompted.

"Queer" by Luca Guadagnino. Last film I had watched by him was "Call me by your name". You can guess the shock. I had missed "Bones and All", that's why. 

However, very good costumes (Daniel Craig's clothes really gave out filthy smell of cigarette and alcohol) and the setting: precious. 

At a first glance the film could look like the story of this mid-aged writer who conducts this really bohemian life between fags, alcohol and passive young gAys. Till he meets this angel on earth, tall, handsome, candid boy who (involuntary) seduces him.

Since then we follow the development of their semi-relationship seeing Daniel Craig getting more and more clingy and the prince getting more and more detached. 

Daniel Craig, fearing of losing the prince, convinces him to embark in a journey that will lead them to Latin America looking for a drug that could give Daniel Craig (I really can't remember his name, or the prince's one) telepathy or psichic powers to control the angel.

They both consume the drug, the angel gets scared of the side effect and goes away. 

Craig returns to the city 2 or 3 years later, discovering that the boy has left with someone else, for somewhere else (a blog full of details, mine).

He has a dream in the love (sex)hotel  he used to bring young folks, where he shoots the boy on the head, and dies in the bed old and wrinkly.

END. Now...

Analysing the dynamic between the two. The angel is detached, always cold, as a friend says to Craig "uncatchable" but must feel something for the good old Daniel. Just thinking that after Daniel's fellatio, he is there ready to do him the favour back. Or the amiability we uses in taking care of Daniel when his body gives in to his drug addiction, like warming him up in the middle of the night stretching his leg (very thin and vey useless) on his. Scene that reminded me of the Coppola's Lost in Translation scene where Murray lays his hand on Johanson's leg.

Anyhow, the young boy struggles with accepting his feelings; everytime he is sleeping while Daniel walks in, he is turned showing his back to him. And he leaves when the old researcher (living in the forest where the drug is found) says that once the door is opened can't be closed (the door of homosexuality???).

In all of this, comes my own, shareable or not, point of view.

This all story looks to me like Daniel Craig is dealing with his own younger self. The two characters look extremely similar to me, like the young and old version of the same man.

Also, they both are writers (the boy writes for a journal). Not that relevant, but wait. 

Another element of support to my thesis is that when Daniel goes to the greenhouse regarding the drug, the owner says that the drug wouldn't help him go beyond himself into someone else, but will act like a mirror.

There was more, I promise, but can't remember (I warned about my loss of memory in the incipit).

This struggle could be interpreted like the conflicts Daniel faced when accepting his sexuality as a young men (Guadagnino I'm watching you). And the scene where the angel (in the dream) puts an apple on his own head and challenges Daniel to shoot, could be interpreted like his young self confiding his life in the hands of an older version of his, that would inevitably lead him to destruction.

That would explain why in the following scene, he dies in the sex room's bed where his life (and genitals) were consumed.